February 2023: Market-based instruments to incentivize more #sustainable practices in #OuterSpace

"The greatest danger is a cascading effect — the #KesslerSyndrome — that could arise once the number of objects in orbit increases past a tipping point. Collisions between resident objects could generate more fragments than the atmosphere can clear, slowly rendering some orbits economically unusable. Models extrapolating current behaviors to the future show an exponential increase in collision rates, suggesting that we have already passed the tipping point. The rising cost associated with space debris will not only affect spacefaring nations but also nonspacefaring nations, as the vital services provided from those orbits will become more expensive or even unavailable." 
#SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343522000999?dgcid=rss_sd_all